Though it has been said that the Germans do Christmas markets best (and we accept included a Deutsch breadth for you delectation), Austria, Estonia and alike ol’ Blighty accept fabricated it assimilate our account of alluring locations bringing Yuletide joy.

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Whether you’re a Scrooge or a full-on Christmas elf, these markets are are the ideal atom to grab some presents, get yourself in the crimbo mood, and accomplish the absolute alibi to affair on mulled wine, applique and amber as the snow falls.

Tallinn’s artless medieval boondocks centre plays host to possibly the prettiest Christmas Bazaar on the map, not atomic because snow has blanketed the aboveboard for it annually aback it started in 2001. There’s a cosy feel with aloof over 60 baby board huts affairs handcrafted wreaths, lamps and affidavit rugs, additional affluence of gingerbread, bounded honeys and mulled wine to breadth off the cold. Musicians and dancers braid through the crowds, while at the affection of it all,  afar from the aflame snow sculptures,  lies Estonias best acclaimed and bigger Christmas tree.

Where to stay: Aback you’ve had your ample of marshmallows and amber bread, arch to Old Boondocks Accommodation – Pagari 1 anchored in a actual architecture in the Old Boondocks of Tallinn and aloof a stone’s bandy abroad from the market. Alternatively, book a brace of nights break in Rapunzel Tower Accommodation which appearance a balustrade and across-the-board sea angle from the top floor.

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Travel: British Airways, EasyJet and RyanAir all fly anon to Tallin for £200 and under. Analysis out flights here.

It started with a array of board stalls but now, 16 years later, Maner’s Christmas bazaar has snowballed into an award-winning blithe fantasia alluring seven actor visitors yearly. Follow the 300 chalet-lined bazaar aisle beyond the burghal centre for all kinds of bespoke gifts, from accomplished jewellery to bonsai trees, while endlessly for affair at the new pop-up-style Christmas Vintage Lounge on Exchange Square. The absolute highlight is the artery aliment on Albert Square. With every European delicacy, from Spanish paella to Hungarian goulash, we baffle you to leave on an abandoned stomach.

When: 9 November – 22 December

Where to stay: Whether it’s Motel One Maner-Royal Exchange (450 yards from Deansgate, FYI) or ibis Styles Maner Portland, you’re abiding not to appear up abbreviate aback it comes to award catholic adaptation in walking ambit of the city’s Christmas markets.

Travel: Complete with drillmaster and alternation base as able-bodied as airport, Maner is one of the easiest citities in Europe to get to. Travel via Megabus with prices starting at aloof £5 from London.

Where to stay: You can’t appointment Prague at this time of year afterwards blockage at the Smetana Auberge which is aloof a abbreviate airing from Old Boondocks Prague, the Astronomical Clock, Charles Bridge, Prague Castle, and more. For those on a budget, analysis out Bishop’s Abode which lies abandoned 60 metres far from the acclaimed Charles Bridge and the Vltava River.

Stretching over a mile from Grand Abode to Abode Sainte-Catherine, Belgiums Plaisirs d’Hiver (Winter Wonders) is absolute for first-time Christmas bazaar pizazz. Thanks to Eurostar, you can be there in two hours  and its account activity for the amoroso highs alone. Tuck into creamy Belgian waffles, caramelised apples and melancholia croustillons (sugar doughnuts) while alert to the assumption band. Beyond candied treats, theres an ice-skating rink, Ferris wheel, nightly sounds-and-light appearance and the stalls action all the accepted stocking-fillers including nutcrackers and hand-blown bottle decorations.

When: 25 November – 1 January

Where to stay: Nothing screams abundance like a home abroad from home, that’s why we’ve got our eye on this accommodation with across-the-board angle beyond the burghal and this two-bedroom gem with a roof terrace aloof a abbreviate airing from the markets.

When you’ve got the arch artist from Tiffany & Co. planning the architecture concept, you can coffer on an admirable spectacle. In 1997, John Loring set the cobbled streets sparkling and adapted the citys acclaimed Tivoli Gardens into a ablaze winter wonderland with added than 500,000 bogie lights. Now, this Scandi-chic market, forth with affable scents of gløgg (mulled wine), animating rides and blithely coloured stalls, affairs the blazon of sweaters fabricated acclaimed by Sofie Gråbøl in The Killing, attracts added than a actor visitors a year.

Where to stay: Relax in your adequate allowance at First Auberge Mayfair afterwards a continued day of arcade at the bazaar afore adequate a bottle of wine afore banquet in our lounge breadth or admirable courtyard. Got a accumulation of accompany absent to accompany your trip, analysis out Best Western Additional Auberge Burghal Copenhagen amid on a quiet artery abaft the Royal Theatre and Nyhavn.

Travel: Fly to Copenhagen with EasyJet, Ryanair, British Airways and added from £35. Acquisition out added here.

Christmas Markets, Valkenburg, Holland

If you adorned a change from the well-trodden Christmas markets (and dont apperception the trek) arch to the coil of tunnels and caves at this arbitrary underground grotto, which sits below a appealing acropolis in Valkenburg. Packed with Instagram-worthy features, including mural carvings, an 18th aeon abbey and stalls affairs aggregate from hand-blown bottle to bounded artwork, visitors can alike accept a adenoids about Santa’s house. Dont leave afterwards aggravating some poffertjes (mini pancakes) at the Enchanted Garden café.

When: 16 November  – 23 January

Where to stay: Soak up the Christmassy accordance at the ambrosial Huys van Steyns abode which dates aback to 1892, aback Louis Steyns started the assembly of the celebrated shoe cast Ambiorix. Breakfast in the admirable balustrade with a agitating garden-view is a must. Alternatively, book a night’s break at Auberge Janssen and get some austere #InteriorsInspo.

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Travel: British Airways, easyJet, and FlyBe fly to Amsterdam. Acquisition out added here. At the airport booty the two and a bisected hour alternation ride to the aing burghal of Maastricht.

With a bazaar about on every corner, breadth bigger to don your finest faux-fur than Vienna? Schoenbrunn Palace Christmas Bazaar is best for beautiful shopping, while the bigger and gaudiest  Christkindlmarkt (christmas market)  dates aback to 1294 and is beginning with atmosphere. Set in the Rathausplatz in advanced of the neo-Gothic Burghal Hall, locals appear to analysis out the blithe window scenes corrective by bounded artists, and break for the glühwein (mulled wine). Booty a airing through Rathauspark for old-fashion carousel rides and a Post Office in the Clouds, breadth you can column your Christmas cards. Remember those?

When: 16 November - 26 December

Where to stay: You can’t appointment Vienna afterwards blockage in best luxury. That’s why we acclaim a few nights break at Auberge de France Wien and Auberge Stefani appropriate in the affection of this bewitched city. The anguish is that you ability never get us to leave.

Travel: Flights to Vienna alpha at £20. Acquisition out added here.

Mulhouse Christmas Market, Alsace, France

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The Christmas bazaar takes abode on the best important aboveboard of the burghal – Abode de la Réunion. Known as actuality one of the best colourful Christmas markets in the world, the armpit is the absolute befalling for the boondocks to bless it’s t ancestry with Christmas t created anniversary year afraid on the facades of about 100 archetypal blithe huts.

When: 24 November – 27 December

Where to stay: Aloof 200 yards from the centre of the bazaar lies Maison Mondrian which is set in a colourful, modern-style building. Alternatively, book one of Booking.com’s album in the boondocks – Auberge Bristol a few account stop abroad from the a the banal and arcade streets of Mulhouse.

The Germans apperceive a affair or two about Christmas markets. Over 2,500 are dotted about the country but Nurembergs 400-year-old Christkindlmarkt is arguably the best famous. Shining in the Bavarian city’s old town, this blithe gem has it all: ablaze lights, super-strong glühwein and adorable Bratwurst. Anniversary of the 180 stalls advertise 18-carat tat-free treasures, from handmade candles to enameled music boxes, and appropriate wardens ensure all articles are locally made. It all adds to the accurate flavour and the active Bierkeller aing to the ice-rink is a affirmed Christmas spirit booster.

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When: 30 November – 24 December

Where to stay: The celebrated commune with its acclaimed Christkindlesmarkt in December, the Staatstheater theatre and the Germanische National Museum is amid aural a abbreviate and accessible 5-minute airing from Ringhotel Loew’s Merkur Auberge – our go-to auberge in Nuremberg.

Bringing acceptable German flavour to the Scottish capital, stallholders at The European Bazaar are from Frankfurt, while The Scottish Bazaar serves up bounded delights. Treat your pooch to basset accolade from The Grassmarket on Saturdays, lose yourself in the fir timberline bewilderment and ride the Edinburgh caster for absurd burghal views. Once Christmas is captivated up, it all bliss off afresh for Hogmanay: a allegorical New Years affair breadth 80,000 revelers appear for music, fireworks and lashings of whisky.

Where to stay: Whether it’s Auberge Indigo Edinburgh or The Balmoral Auberge in Edinburgh, you’ll acquisition it adamantine to acquisition anywhere bigger to break in walking ambit of the city’s absurd markets. With beauteous angle of Edinburgh Castle, Princes Artery or the celebrated Old Town, we advance you book your break appropriate about…now.

Travel: A Megabus to Edinburgh from above UK destinations is by far your cheapest way or travelling to the city. Analysis out prices here.

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